# Deaths in November 1998
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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1998.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## November 1998
### 1

* Augusto Magli, 75, Italian football player.
* Kunitaka Sueoka, 81, Japanese football player.
* Norbert Wollheim, 85, German-American Holocaust survivor.
* Stanislav Zhuk, 63, Russian Olympic skater and coach, heart attack.

### 2

* Janet Arnold, 66, British clothing historian, costume designer and author, lymphoma.
* Sverre Brodahl, 89, Norwegian Nordic skier and Olympic medalist.
* Claude Bramall Burgess, 88, Hong Kong Colonial Secretary.
* Fred Freer, 82, Australian cricket player.
* Henry Horton, 75, English sportsman.
* Rolf Husberg, 90, Swedish film director, screenwriter and actor.
* Jovelina Pérola Negra, 54, Brazilian samba singer and songwriter, heart attack.
* Elmo Plaskett, 60, United States Virgin Islands baseball player.
* Vincent Winter, 50, Scottish child film actor, heart attack.

### 3

* Ray Bremser, 64, American poet.
* Helmuth Johannsen, 78, German football player and manager.
* Bob Kane, 83, American comic book writer (Batman).
* John Campbell Merrett, 89, Canadian architect.
* P. L. Narayana, 63, Indian film actor and playwright.
* Martha O'Driscoll, 76, American film actress.
* Oriano Quilici, 68, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
* Nina Youshkevitch, 77, Franco-Russian ballet dancer and teacher.

### 4

* Jean de Heinzelin de Braucourt, 78, Belgian geologist.
* Marion Donovan, 81, American inventor and entrepreneur.
* Lars Ernster, 78, Swedish biochemist and Nobel Foundation board member.
* Joyce Lussu, 86, Italian writer and partisan during World War II.
* Jimmy McGee, 75, Irish basketball player and musician.
* Jorge Wehbe, 78, Argentine lawyer and economist, Minister of Economy.

### 5

* Garlin Murl Conner, 79, United States Army officer during World War II and Medal of Honor recipient.
* Momoko Kōchi, 66, Japanese actress (Godzilla), cancer.
* Nagarjun, 87, Indian poet.
* Jack Stewart, 86, Australian farmer and politician.

### 6

* Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, President of the Comoros.
* Hélmer Herrera Buitrago, 47, Colombian narco and member of the Cali Cartel, shot.
* Jack Hartman, 73, American gridiron football player and basketball coach.
* Bobo Lewis, 72, American comedic actress, cancer.
* Sky Low Low, 70, Canadian midget wrestler, heart attack.
* Niklas Luhmann, 70, German sociologist and philosopher of social science.
* Wolfgang Stresemann, 94, German jurist, orchestra leader, conductor and composer.
* István Szőts, 86, Hungarian screenwriter and film director.
* Stan Wright, 77, American track and field coach.

### 7

* Jitendra Abhisheki, 69, Indian vocalist, composer and music scholar.
* Leonard De Paur, 83, American composer and choral director.
* Agenore Fabbri, 87, Italian sculptor and painter.
* Margaret Gowing, 77, English historian, Alzheimer's disease.
* John Hunt, Baron Hunt, 88, British Army officer.
* Vladimir Matskevich, 88, Soviet apparatchik and ambassador.
* Börje Mellvig, 86, Swedish actor, screenwriter, director and lyricist.
* Ted Slevin, English rugby player.
* Jiwan Singh Umranangal, 84, Indian politician.
* O. Meredith Wilson, 89, American historian and academic, brain cancer.

### 8

* Rumer Godden, 90, English author (Black Narcissus), complications from a series of strokes.
* Jemal Karchkhadze, Georgian writer.
* Thomas Henry Manning, 86, British-Canadian Arctic explorer, geographer, zoologist, and author.
* Jean Marais, 84, French actor, writer and sculptor, cardiovascular disease.
* Lonnie Pitchford, 43, American blues musician and instrument maker.
* Erol Taş, 70, Turkish film actor, diabetes.

### 9

* Baya, 66, Algerian artist.
* Henry Dorman, 82, American lawyer and politician.
* Anura Ranasinghe, 42, Sri Lankan cricketer, heart attack.
* Ursula Reit, 84, German actress.
* Francis Scully, 73, American sailor and Olympic medalist.

### 10

* Svetlana Beriosova, 66, Lithuanian-British prima ballerina, cancer.
* Peter Cotes, 86, English actor, writer, and director.
* Mahmoud Hassan, 78, Egyptian Greco-Roman bantamweight wrestler and Olympic medalist.
* Henry James, 78, British civil servant (born 1919).
* Jean Leray, 92, French mathematician.
* Georg Liebsch, 87, German featherweight weightlifter and Olympian.
* Mary Millar, 62, British actress (Keeping Up Appearances) and singer, ovarian cancer.
* Hal Newhouser, 77, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, respiratory disease.
* Ellis Robinson, 87, English cricketer.

### 11

* Frank Brimsek, 83, American ice hockey player.
* Patrick Clancy, 76, Irish folk singer, lung cancer.
* Gérard Grisey, 52, French composer of contemporary classical music, ruptured aneurysm.
* Ferdinand Kulmer, 73, Croatian abstract painter.
* Allan Kwartler, 81, American sabre and foil fencer.
* Sam Melberg, 86, Norwegian sports diver and Olympian.
* Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr., 82, American government official and college president.
* Anicet Utset, 66, Spanish cyclist.

### 12

* Janet Alcoriza, 80, American screenwriter and actress.
* Jack Gelineau, 74, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
* James H. Gray, 92, Canadian journalist, historian and author.
* Paul Hoffman, 73, American basketball player, brain tumor.
* Roy Hollis, 72, English football player.
* Asher Joel, 86, Australian politician and public servant.
* Kenny Kirkland, 43, American pianist and keyboardist, congestive heart failure.
* Lu Ann Meredith, 85, American film actress.
* Sally Shlaer, 59, American mathematician, software engineer and methodologist.

### 13

* Don Bishop, 64, American gridiron football player.
* Joseph C. Brun, 91, French-American cinematographer.
* Edwige Feuillère, 91, French actress.
* Valerie Hobson, 81, Irish-born actress, heart attack.
* Red Holzman, 78, American basketball player and coach, leukemia.
* Hendrik Timmer, 94, Dutch sportsman and Olympic medalist.
* Michel Trudeau, 23, Canadian outdoorsman and brother of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, avalanche.
* Ilie Văduva, 64, Romanian communist politician.
* Doug Wright, 84, English cricket player.

### 14

* Eli Cashdan, 93, British rabbi.
* Quentin Crewe, 72, English journalist, author, restaurateur and adventurer.
* Albert Frey, 95, Swiss-American architect.
* Rachel Holzer, 99, Australian theatre actress and director.

### 15

* Stokely Carmichael, 57, Trinidadian-American political activist, prostate cancer.
* Henryk Chmielewski, 84, Polish boxer and Olympian.
* Lawrence Krader, 78, American socialist anthropologist and ethnologist.
* Federico Krutwig, 77, Spanish Basque writer, philosopher, and politician.
* William T. Miller, 87, American professor of organic chemistry.
* Doris Niles, 93, American dancer.
* Leo Aloysius Pursley, 96, American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church.

### 16

* Ludvík Daněk, 61, Czechoslovak discus thrower and Olympic champion, heart attack.
* Tyrone Delano Gilliam, Jr., 32, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Mohammad-Taqi Ja'fari, 73, Iranian scholar, philosopher and Islamic theologist.
* Queenie McKenzie, 68, Aboriginal Australian artist.
* Alexander Smorchkov, 78, Soviet fighter pilot during World War II and the Korean War.
* J. D. Sumner, 73, American gospel singer and songwriter.

### 17

* Kea Bouman, 94, Dutch tennis player.
* Weeb Ewbank, 91, American football coach (Baltimore Colts, New York Jets) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, heart problems.
* Efim Geller, 73, Soviet chess player and grandmaster.
* Jean Herly, 78, Monegasque diplomat and ambassador.
* Reinette L'Oranaise, 80, Algerian singer.
* Kenneth McDuff, 52, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
* Jacques Médecin, 70, French politician, cardiac arrest.
* Miguel A. García Méndez, 96, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician.
* Dick O'Neill, 70, American actor (The Jerk, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Cagney & Lacey).
* Esther Rolle, 78, American actress (Good Times, Maude, Driving Miss Daisy), Emmy winner (1979), diabetes.
* Bill Ward, 79, American cartoonist (Torchy).

### 18

* Telemaco Arcangeli, 75, Italian racewalker and Olympian.
* Norma Connolly, 71, American actress.
* Hal Davis, 65, American songwriter and record producer.
* Robin Hall, 62, Scottish folksinger.
* Jeanine Moulin, 86, Belgian poet and literary scholar.
* Aurélio de Lira Tavares, 93, Brazilian Army general.

### 19

* Louis Dumont, French anthropologist.
* Ted Fujita, 78, Japanese-American meteorologist.
* Alfred 'Ken' Gatward, 84, British Royal Air Force pilot during World War II.
* Earl Kim, 78, American composer, and music pedagogue, lung cancer.
* William J. McCarthy, 79, American labor leader.
* Alan J. Pakula, 70, American film director and producer (All the President's Men, The Parallax View, To Kill a Mockingbird), traffic collision.

### 20

* Roland Alphonso, 67, Jamaican tenor saxophonist.
* Marian Brandys, 86, Polish writer and screenwriter.
* George Brophy, 72, American baseball executive.
* Howard Wilson Emmons, 86, American professor in Mechanical Engineering.
* Meredith Gourdine, 69, American physicist, athlete and Olympic medalist.
* John Grimek, 88, American bodybuilder and weightlifter.
* Cec Luining, 67, Canadian football player.
* Mario Orozco Rivera, 68, Mexican muralist and painter.
* Dick Sisler, 78, American baseball player, coach and manager.
* Galina Starovoytova, 52, Soviet dissident, shot.

### 21

* Thomas V. Bermingham, American Jesuit priest and Classical scholar.
* Dariush Forouhar, 69–70, Iranian pan-Iranist politician, stabbed.
* Otto Frankel, 98, Austrian-Australian geneticist.
* Dave Huffman, 41, American football player, traffic collision.
* Giles Pellerin, 91, American gridiron football player.
* Alvin P. Shapiro, 77, American physician and professor, complications of kidney failure.
* Ormond R. Simpson, 83, United States Marine Corps officer.
* Fabian Ver, 78, Filipino military officer, pulmonary complications.
* Nosson Meir Wachtfogel, 88, Russian-American Orthodox rabbi.

### 22

* Harlan Parker Banks, 85, American paleobotanist and phycologist.
* Vladimir Demikhov, 82, Soviet scientist and organ transplantation pioneer.
* Henry Hampton, 58, American filmmaker.
* Mikołaj Kozakiewicz, 74, Polish politician, publicist and sociologist.
* Harry Lehmann, 74, German physicist.
* Celeste Mendoza, 68, Cuban singer.
* Holt Rast, 81, American football player.
* Jack Shadbolt, 89, Canadian painter.
* Stu Ungar, 45, American professional poker, blackjack, and gin rummy player, heart problems.

### 23

* Lamar McHan, 65, American football player and coach, heart attack.
* Gene Moore, 88, American designer and window dresser.
* Dan Osman, 35, American extreme sport practitioner, rock climbing accident.
* Ralph S. Phillips, 85, American mathematician and academic.
* Don Ray, 77, American basketball player.
* Eugen Seiterle, 84, Swiss field handball player and Olympic medalist.

### 24

* Len Barnum, 86, American gridiron football player.
* John Chadwick, 78, English linguist and classical scholar who deciphered Linear B.
* Minnette de Silva, 80, Sri Lankan architect.
* Eprime Eshag, 80, Iranian economist.
* Guido Figone, 71, Italian gymnast.
* Nicholas Kurti, 90, Hungarian-British physicist.
* George F. Sprague, 96, American geneticist and researcher.
* Theodore Strongin, 79, American music critic, composer, flautist, and entomologist.
* Nikola Tanhofer, 71, Croatian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.

### 25

* Robert Eisner, 76, American author and economist, bone marrow disorder.
* Nelson Goodman, 92, American philosopher.
* Parmeshwar Narayan Haksar, 85, Indian diplomat.
* Anwar Mesbah, 85, Egyptian weightlifter and Olympic champion.
* Enrico Sabbatini, 66, Italian costume designer (The Mission, Seven Years in Tibet, Cutthroat Island) and production designer, traffic collision.
* Fiatau Penitala Teo, 87, Tuvaluan political figure.
* Flip Wilson, 64, American comedian and actor, liver cancer.

### 26

* Gerald Battrick, 51, Welsh tennis player.
* Charles Moihi Te Arawaka Bennett, 85, New Zealand broadcaster, military leader and public servant.
* Mike Calvert, 85, British Army officer.
* M. T. Cheng, 81, Chinese mathematician.
* Ox Emerson, 90, American football player.
* Gyo Fujikawa, 90, American illustrator and children's author.
* Tom Lyon, 83, Scottish footballer.
* Ed Smith, 69, American basketball player (New York Knicks).

### 27

* Barbara Acklin, 55, American soul singer and songwriter, pneumonia.
* William Baxter, 69, American professor of law.
* Gloria Fuertes, 81, Spanish poet and children's author, lung cancer.
* Jozef IJsewijn, 65, Belgian Latinist.
* Douglas LePan, 84, Canadian diplomat, poet, novelist and professor of literature.
* Herman Murray, 89, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Andrey Sergeev, 65, Russian writer and translator, traffic collision.
* Vicki Viidikas, 50, Australian poet.

### 28

* Dante Fascell, 81, American politician, colorectal cancer.
* Frederick William Freking, 85, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, emphysema.
* M. Donald Grant, 94, American baseball executive (New York Mets).
* Roberta Kevelson, 67, American academic and semiotician.
* James C. Lucas, 86, American criminal and inmate of Alcatraz penitentiary.
* Augie Scott, 77, English football player and manager.
* Maurice Seynaeve, 91, Belgian cyclo-cross rider.
* John Stanford, 60, American Army officer.
* Kerry Wendell Thornley, 60, American counterculture figure and writer, heart attack.

### 29

* Roy Benavidez, 63, United States Army Special Forces member and Medal of Honor recipient, complications of diabetes.
* Gino De Dominicis, 51, Italian artist.
* Maus Gatsonides, 87, Dutch rally driver and inventor.
* Jack Gilbert, 80, Australian World War II veteran and rugby player.
* Giant Haystacks, 52, British professional wrestler, lymphoma.
* Pépé Kallé, 46, Congolese musician, heart attack.
* Frank Latimore, 73, American actor.
* Živojin Pavlović, 65, Yugoslav and Serbian film director, writer, and painter.
* Robin Ray, 64, English broadcaster, actor, and musician, lung cancer.
* Jim Turner, 95, American baseball player.
* George Van Eps, 85, American swing and jazz guitarist, pneumonia.

### 30

* Pentti Aalto, 81, Finnish linguist, heart disease.
* Abdullah Al-Muti, 68, Bangladeshi educationist and writer.
* Ruth Clifford, 98, American actress.
* Alfo Ferrari, 74, Italian cyclist.
* Jesse Levan, 72, American baseball player.
* Ad Liska, 92, American baseball pitcher.
* Simon Nkoli, 41, South African anti-apartheid and gay rights activist, AIDS.
* Johnny Roventini, 88, American actor.
* Philip Sterling, 76, American actor.
* James Strauch, 77, American Olympic fencer.
* Margaret Walker, 83, American poet and writer, breast cancer.